10th February 2012
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Max Orrin (Photo Tom Ward & EGU) |
Jamie Clare (Burnham & Berrow, Somerset), runner-up in last year's English Amateur Championship, and Max Orrin (North Foreland, Kent) will represent England Golf in the KeNako South African World Juniors at Kingswood Golf Club in George on 6th - 8th March.
The event, which also embraces a girl's competition, is played over 54 holes of stroke play and is part of the World Junior Golf Series. Clare, 17, spent some of his younger years in Portugal where he won a number of Portuguese Federation junior competitions.
He is a former Sussex under 15 champion when a member of East Sussex National and last year's South West Schools Champion.
But he took everyone's attention last July when he battled through to the 36-hole final of the English Amateur at Woburn only to lose 7 and 5 to international Steven Brown. Clare was capped by England at under 16 level and is a member of the England boys' Squad as is Orrin, 17, who was an under 16 team-mate of Clare.
Orrin (picture © Tom Ward) made his debut as a boy cap in last year's European Boys Team Championships in the Czech Republic and also played in the Boys Home Internationals.
A former South of England Boys champion, he finished runner-up in the 2010 English under 16 Championship for the McGregor Trophy at Prince's , while last year he won the Andulucia Junior Open, was second in the Darwin Salver and third in the Fairhaven Trophy and the South East Junior Championship.
England Golf is the governing body for amateur golf in England.
England Golf was formed on 1st January 2012 following the merger of the English Golf Union Ltd. and the English Women's Golf Association and is one of the largest sports governing bodies in England looking after the interests of over 1,900 golf clubs and 770,000 men and women club members.
Responsible for the training of the country's top amateur golfers, England Golf also organises all the major English amateur championships. England Golf works to actively encourage new golfers and increase the continued interest and participation in golf through its golf development initiative 'Get into Golf'.
England Golf is a member of The England Golf Partnership (EGP) together with the PGA and supported by the Golf Foundation and Sport England. Their Whole Sport Plan for golf identifies how England will achieve its vision of becoming 'The Leading Golf Nation in the World by 2020' from grass roots right through to elite level. |
